ISBN10: 0199546177, ISBN13: 9780199546176, [publisher: Oxford University Press] Hardcover
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ISBN10: 0199546177, ISBN13: 9780199546176, [publisher: Oxford University Press, Oxford] Hardcover Hardcover. This book is based on the premise that the entropy concept, a fundamental element of probability theory as logic, governs all of thermal physics, both equilibrium and nonequilibrium. The variational algorithm of J. Willard Gibbs, dating from the 19th Century and extended considerably over the following 100 years, is shown to be the governing feature over the entire range of thermal phenomena, such that only the nature of the macroscopic constraints changes.Beginning with a short history of the development of the entropy concept by Rudolph Clausius and his predecessors, along with the formalization of classical thermodynamics by Gibbs, the first part of the bookdescribes the quest to uncover the meaning of thermodynamic entropy, which leads to its relationship with probability and information as first envisioned by Ludwig Boltzmann. Recognition of entropy first of all as a fundamental element of probability theory in mid-twentieth Century led to deep insights into both statistical mechanics and thermodynamics, the details of which are presented here in several chapters. The later chapters extend these ideas to nonequilibrium statistical mechanics inan unambiguous manner, thereby exhibiting the overall unifying role of the entropy. The book explicates the concept of entropy, particularly its governance of all of thermal physics, over a broad range of ...
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ISBN10: 0199546177, ISBN13: 9780199546176, [publisher: Oxford, Oxford University Press Incorporated] Hardcover 224 S. Ehem. Bibliotheksexemplar mit Signatur und Stempel. GUTER Zustand, ein paar Gebrauchsspuren. Ex-library with stamp and library-signature. GOOD condition, some traces of use. 9780199546176 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 900
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Oxford, England Oxford University Press, USA 2008 Hard cover New. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 256 p. Contains: Unspecified, Tables, black & white, Figures. International Monographs on Physics, 141.

Oxford, England OUP Oxford 2008 Hard cover New. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 256 p. Contains: Unspecified, Tables, black & white, Figures. International Monographs on Physics, 141.

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